I understand that I wont reach 100%  CPU but the only bottleneck keeping my server from doing more transactions has to be the application not leveraging the full system capability....

Yeah I thought it was licensing too. I've been scouring a number of MSFT tech pages about the affinity mask but nothing really explaining why auto stops at...

2017-12-29 14:08:48.83 Server  SQL Server detected 2 sockets with 24 cores per socket and 48 logical processors per socket, 96 total logical processors; using 96 logical processors based on SQL Server...